CID (Indian TV series)

CID
Genre
Created byB. P. Singh
Written by
  • Nitika Kanwar
  • Chirag Salian
  • Tanmay Singh
  • Gopal Kulkarni
  • Shridhar Raghavan
  • Shashank Shekhar
Directed by
  • Ishwar Singh
  • Santosh Shetty
  • Sachindra Vats
  • Siba Misra
  • Salil Singh
Creative directorChristabelle D'Souza
Starring
Country of originIndia
Original languageHindi
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes1,651
Production
Producers
  • B.P. Singh (season 1–2)
  • Pradeep Uppoor (season 1)
  • Deepak Dhar (season 2)
  • Rajesh Chadha (season 2)
  • Akshay Singh (season 2)
Running time40–46 minutes
Production companiesFireworks Productions (season 1)
Banijay Asia (season 2)
Fiction Factory (season 2)
Original release
NetworkSony Entertainment Television
Release21 January 1998 (1998-01-21) –
14 December 2025 (2025-12-14)
Related
C.I.D. Kolkata Bureau
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CID is an Indian police procedural television series that premiered on Sony Entertainment Television on 21 January 1998. The series was created by B. P. Singh and produced by Singh and Pradeep Uppoor under the banner of Fireworks Productions in season 1; Deepak Dhar, Rajesh Chadha, Akshay Singh and B.P. Singh under Banijay Asia in season 2 alongside Fiction Factory. It features Shivaji Satam as ACP Pradyuman, Aditya Srivastava as Sr. Inspector Abhijeet, Dayanand Shetty as Sr. Inspector Daya, Dinesh Phadnis as Inspector Fredricks and Narendra Gupta as Dr. Salunkhe.

The location of CID is set in Mumbai. The series is one of the longest-running television series in India. The series first premiered on 21 January 1998 and aired its 500th episode on 18 January 2008, 1000th episode on 13 September 2013, 1500th episode on 4 March 2018, last episode on 27 October 2018. The series renewed for a second season, which aired from 21 December 2024 to 14 December 2025.The second season also started streaming simultaneously on Netflix from 21 February 2025.